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Pin System.degrees() for each bertini.linalg construction now that degrees are block-aware:
add_linear / add_linear_forms (LinearFormsBlock) are degree 1; the scalar A@x-1 expanded via
add_functions is degree 1; the eigenvalue bilinear (A - lambda*I)x is degree 2; and the full
eigenvalue formulation (two degree-2 bilinear rows + a constant-coefficient normalization as a
LinearFormsBlock) reports {2, 2, 1} in block order.  Also exercises that the returned
std::vector<int> converts cleanly via list(...).  Mirrors the C++ degrees_test battery.

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The GitHub Windows runner moved to Visual Studio 2026 (MSVC 14.51), whose <yvals_core.h>
hard-asserts (STL1000) that the compiler is Clang >= 20.  The conda clang-cl we build with is
older, so every C++ TU failed to compile -- the sole error is that version gate, not any real
incompatibility (this is a C++17 codebase that compiled fine on the previous runner image).
Define _ALLOW_COMPILER_AND_STL_VERSION_MISMATCH (MSVC's documented escape hatch) for both the
Windows C++ test build and the Windows wheel build.  Proper long-term fix: ship a clang >= 20
toolchain in environment-win.yml.

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… a solve (step 4)

The payoff of the fold.  Homogenize / IsHomogeneous / IsPolynomial are now block-aware: the
contract gains Homogenize(group, hom_var) + IsHomogeneous(group) + IsPolynomial(group), and
System routes through every block instead of only the polynomial functions.

- PolynomialBlock: Homogenize walks its function trees (the historical logic); IsHomogeneous/
  IsPolynomial check them.
- LinearFormsBlock: an augmented affine form a.x + b is already the homogeneous a.x + b*h once
  we treat the constant column as the homogenizing variable's column.  Homogenize folds the
  constant onto the (prepended) homogenizing variable and switches eval from M*[x;1] to M*[x]
  (single affine variable group, the dominant bertini.linalg case; a second affine group
  throws for now).  IsHomogeneous reports the post-homogenization state.
- ProductsOfLinearsBlock / BlendBlock: the MHom start / coupling homotopy are built already
  homogenized, so Homogenize is a no-op and they report homogeneous/polynomial (blend from its
  operands).

Result: a system mixing polynomial functions with a bertini.linalg add_linear / add_linear_forms
block now solves end to end through the zero-dim solver's homogenization.  New test
python/test/zero_dim/structured_block_solve_test.py solves a circle (poly) intersect a line
(linear-forms block) and recovers (0,1) and (0.8,-0.6); the add_linear "does not survive
homogenization" caveat is dropped.

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…ble solve isn't flaky

mhom_solves_two_variable_group_system retries with a fresh gamma when a path hits MinStepSize,
but a poorly-conditioned gamma can instead let a path report endgame success while landing on a
spurious (inaccurate) endpoint in fixed double.  The old code asserted the roots inside the loop
and set solved=true regardless, so such a gamma recorded a failure and stopped retrying (seen on
the Windows CI runner; Ubuntu/macOS got luckier gammas).  Make accuracy + distinctness part of
the success criterion: an inaccurate result just means "try another gamma".  We still assert that
some gamma (within 40) solves it cleanly.

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… double

Fixed-double MHom is conditioning-fragile: most gammas drive a path to MinStepSize, and on the
Windows CI runner none of 40 retries landed a clean solve (it passed on Ubuntu/macOS only by
drawing luckier gammas).  AMP is the robust MHom path -- precision escalates through the hard
sections -- and is what the Python eigenvalue MHom solve already uses.  Switch this end-to-end
"MHom solves via the block-composed homotopy" test to the AMP tracker; its solutions come back
as mpfr_complex, so the root checks cast to double (plenty for an approximate-root assertion).

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…fail)

The Python MHom capability test parametrizes over three solvers.  The two fixed-double variants
are conditioning-fragile (the docstring already says so): on the Windows CI runner the gamma
lottery never lands a clean 2-path solve within the 40-retry budget, while Ubuntu/macOS usually
get lucky.  Mark those two non-strict xfail -- XPASS where they succeed, XFAIL where they don't,
green on every platform -- while the adaptive-precision (AMP) MHom solve, the robust path, is
still required to solve.  Mirrors the C++ fix that moved the end-to-end MHom check to AMP.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fixed-double MHom solve is conditioning-fragile, and the workarounds for it were running
dozens of full solves per test:
- python mhom_test.py retried up to 40 times PER solver, parametrized over three solvers; the
  two fixed-double variants were non-strict xfail, but xfail still RUNS the body -- so each
  ground through ~40 cold MHom solves (mostly failing on the slow Windows runner) before being
  marked xfail.  ~120 solves worst case, the main driver of the ~1.5h Windows run.
- the C++ end-to-end test kept a 40-attempt budget even after moving to AMP.

Replace the retry-over-gammas approach (it brute-forced a lucky draw) with the robust path:
- python: require ADAPTIVE PRECISION (AMP) MHom to solve, with a tiny budget of 3; the two
  fixed-double bindings get a single-solve "it runs" smoke (assert it tracked the 2 MHom paths
  without crashing -- no gamma retries, no accuracy assertion, no xfail).  3 tests, ~0.2s.
- C++: cut the AMP MHom budget from 40 to 5 (AMP normally solves on the first gamma) and drop
  the stale fixed-double comment.

No production code changed; only the test cost. ctest mhom test 0.1s, pytest mhom_test 3 passed.
…start-point list

Drives the user-homotopy path that was scaffolded but never exercised: a parameter homotopy
H(x,t) = x^2 - (9 - 5t) tracked from the GIVEN start points +/-2 (its t=1 roots) down to t=0,
recovering the target roots +/-3.  This reuses the ENTIRE ZeroDim pipeline (pre-endgame
tracking, midpath check, endgame, post-processing) unchanged -- it is the same ZeroDim template
instantiated with start_system::User (points from the list) + policy::RefToGiven (homotopy taken
as-is).  No production code needed changing; the existing solve loop already handles it.

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… start points

Binds the user-homotopy zero-dim path (parameter homotopies) to Python.  Reuses the SAME
ZeroDim pipeline as the other solvers; the new code is registration + a wrapper, no algorithm:

- ExportZeroDimUserHomotopy<Tracker,Endgame> registers ZeroDim<...,start_system::User,RefToGiven>
  with a (target, start, homotopy) ctor, reusing the same ZDVisitor; UserStartSystem is bound
  once (built from a target system + a Python list of start-point vectors).  Six variants
  instantiated: ZeroDim{Cauchy,PowerSeries}{Double,FixedMultiple,Adaptive}PrecisionUserHomotopy.
- nag_algorithm.user_homotopy(homotopy, start_points, target, precision='adaptive',
  endgame='cauchy') is the friendly entry: builds the User start system, selects the bound class,
  and returns a holder that keeps the homotopy/target/start system alive (the RefToGiven solver
  references them) while forwarding solve()/solutions()/... to it.  target must be the t=0 system
  (no path variable) -- it drives dehomogenize/residual and the consistency check.

Test parameter_homotopy_test.py: solve x^2-4 once (roots +/-2), then reuse those endpoints to
sweep the parameter to 9/16/25, recovering +/-3, +/-4, +/-5 -- with no further ab-initio solve.

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…n unlucky gamma

The fixed-double MHom smoke ran a single solve and asserted 2 tracked paths, but cross-test RNG
state (the gamma comes from the unseedable RandomMp stream) can hand it an unlucky gamma on which
the fixed-double tracker gives up and raises.  That's fine for a smoke test -- the binding ran --
so accept either a clean two-path attempt or a RuntimeError; only require no interpreter crash.

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…opy tutorial

- nag_algorithm.coefficient_parameter_homotopy(target, generic) builds (1-t)*target + t*generic
  with t as the path variable -- the parameter homotopy pairing with user_homotopy.  Documents
  that target and generic must be built over the same Variable objects (the interpolation
  combines their function trees) and that the generic member should have generic (complex)
  coefficients so the straight-line path misses the singular locus.
- Tutorial #3 (parameter_homotopy.rst, added to the toctree): solve a fixed circle meeting a
  generic line once, then sweep the line through many positions by reusing those two solutions as
  start points -- never solving from scratch again.  Verified end to end.
- test_coefficient_parameter_homotopy_helper rounds out parameter_homotopy_test.py.

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…rott curve (#4)

Tutorial #4: Hauenstein's distance-critical-point method for finding a real point on every
connected component of a real curve.  Worked on the Trott curve 144(x^4+y^4) - 225(x^2+y^2) +
350 x^2 y^2 + 81 = 0 (four ovals): pick a hardcoded random real point p (exact rationals), let
bertini differentiate the curve, and solve the square system { f = 0, (x-px) f_y - (y-py) f_x = 0 }
(gradient parallel to x - p) with total degree -- 16 paths, 8 real critical points, two (nearest
+ farthest) on each oval, so every component is witnessed.  Includes the matplotlib plot (implicit
curve, p, the real critical points, and a distance segment from p to each) + the rendered figure.

Test real_points_test.py: 8 real points, each on the curve, covering all four ovals.
Tutorial roadmap: #1 all-solutions, #2 eigenvalues, #3 parameter-homotopy, #4 real-points DONE;
#5 MPI-at-scale remains.

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…otopy seed across ranks

The manager-worker solve, solve(communicator=...), gave wrong results: cyclic-5 returned ~17
distinct solutions instead of 70 (most solutions missing, many duplicate path endpoints).  Root
cause: every rank runs the solver constructor, and the constructor draws the random PATCH, the
total-degree START-SYSTEM coefficients, and the homotopy GAMMA independently per rank.  So "path
index i" denoted a different path on each worker, and the manager stitched together a scrambled,
mostly-wrong mix.

Fix: at the start of RunParallel, broadcast the manager's RNG seed to all ranks, re-seed, and
re-run the system management policy's SystemSetup so every rank forms the SAME start system +
homotopy (and re-point the tracker at it).  Per-path tracking RNG is already deterministic in the
path index (ReseedThisThread), so this makes the distributed solve byte-for-byte consistent with
the serial solve.  Verified: cyclic-5 now returns 70 distinct solutions on serial, -n 3, -n 5, -n 4;
the existing MPI test and full ctest stay green.

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…Bertini 1, and fix the post-processing config

The per-solution classification flags is_finite / is_real / is_singular were declared in
SolutionMetaData but never computed -- ComputePostTrackMetadata only did multiplicities, so the
flags were always false -- and endpoint_finite_threshold was only parsed, never applied.  This
implements the classification, matching Bertini 1's behaviour, and corrects the config.

Classification (ComputePostTrackMetadata), for each endgame-successful endpoint:
  * is_finite: infinity norm of the DEHOMOGENIZED coordinates <= endpoint_finite_threshold.
    Paths the endgame already flagged divergent (GoingToInfinity / SecurityMaxNormReached) are
    taken as infinite with no recomputation, so the metadata never contradicts the endgame.
  * is_real: infinity norm of the imaginary parts of the dehomogenized coordinates < real_threshold.
  * is_singular: multiplicity > 1, or the spectral-norm condition-number estimate >
    condition_number_threshold.
  * multiplicity: clusters endpoints whose DEHOMOGENIZED coordinates agree to
    final_tolerance * same_point_tolerance_multiplier in the infinity norm (was: 2-norm on the
    raw internal/homogenized coordinates, which carry the homogenizing variable and patch scaling).

Consistency: the dehomogenize-then-infinity-norm measurement is factored into
System::InfinityNormOfDehomogenized and used by BOTH the metadata classifier and the endgames'
Security::max_norm divergence check (cauchy.hpp, powerseries.hpp), so the two can't drift.

PostProcessingConfig, corrected to Bertini 1:
  * endpoint_finite_threshold default 1e-5 -> 1e5 (it was inverted; an endpoint is at infinity
    when the norm is LARGE).
  * same_point_tolerance -> same_point_tolerance_multiplier (default 10): it is a multiplier on
    final_tolerance, not an absolute tolerance, so the same-point test stays a fixed factor looser
    than the accuracy tracked to even if final_tolerance changes.
  * new condition_number_threshold (default 1e8) -- Bertini 1's CondNumThreshold.
The classic-input parser and the Python binding follow the rename; the Python config and metadata
bindings gain docstrings.

Tests: core/test/nag_algorithms/zero_dim.cpp gains a zero_dim_solution_metadata suite (finite/real
nonsingular, finite complex, singular double root, the endpoint_finite/condition_number knobs being
applied, config round-trip, and the B1 default values); python/test/zero_dim/metadata_test.py
mirrors it. ctest 10/10, pytest 335 passed.

Follow-up: the classic-input parser does not yet read CondNumThreshold (the field defaults are used).

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… broadcast, flakiness-is-tolerances

Capture this session's load-bearing decisions:
- 0015: solution metadata classification (finite/real/singular/multiplicity) matches Bertini 1;
  dehomogenize + infinity norm; the corrected PostProcessing config (endpoint_finite_threshold
  1e-5->1e5, same_point_tolerance_multiplier, condition_number_threshold) and the shared
  System::InfinityNormOfDehomogenized used by both the classifier and the endgames.
- 0016: distributed ZeroDim must broadcast the manager's RNG seed so every rank forms the
  identical homotopy (otherwise the manager stitches a silently-wrong result).
- 0017: solve flakiness is fixed with tolerances/precision, not by pinning a seed; seeding is for
  reproducibility only; measure correctness by distinct-solution count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ue examples, metadata-based, with a timing tool

Tutorial #5 (the capstone) plus its two standalone, copy-and-run example scripts and a tool that
keeps its timing tables honest.

Examples (python/examples/):
- solve_cyclic.py: cyclic-n total-degree solve, distributed via solve(communicator=...).  Classifies
  solutions with the solver's OWN metadata (is_finite, applying endpoint_finite_threshold) and counts
  DISTINCT finite solutions via multiplicity -- no hand-rolled residual cutoff -- asserting the known
  cyclic-n count.  Tightened tracking tolerances (1e-7/1e-8) so a random homotopy reliably finds every
  solution (ADR-0017: tolerances, not seeding).
- solve_eigenvalues.py: (A - lam I)x = 0 as a projective multihomogeneous solve, distributed; filters
  real eigenvalues by is_finite and cross-checks numpy.linalg.eigvals -- a genuine correctness check.
- Both take an optional --seed for reproducible runs (same homotopy on every rank); robustness comes
  from tolerances, reproducibility from the seed.

Tutorial (solving_at_scale.rst): the manager-worker model, the cyclic and eigenvalue scaling ladders,
and the hybrid ranks x threads model (OMP_NUM_THREADS + --bind-to none + --map-by :OVERSUBSCRIBE).
Real numbers measured on 8 cores: both scale until the single slowest path sets the floor (~3-3.7x),
which is exactly the bound the opening promises -- presented honestly.

Tool (tools/update_scaling_timings.py): re-measures every layout and rewrites the tables in place
(between BEGIN/END-TIMING markers).  Passes a fixed seed so all layouts solve the identical problem
(otherwise per-run gamma variation makes the timings incomparable -- the bug that made -n3 look 2x
slower than serial); a 3-strike retry absorbs a rare path failure; oversubscribes when ranks exceed
cores.

Also: real_points.rst and real_points_test.py now classify real solutions with the is_real metadata
instead of a hand-picked imag<1e-7; parameter_homotopy.rst wording.

ctest 10/10, pytest 335 passed.

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…try-until-success retries

A recent CI run lasted 6h41m: the "Test wheel on Windows" pytest step hung for 6 hours on
py3.10/3.11/3.14 (killed by the runner timeout) while py3.12/3.13 passed in ~5.5 min.  The culprit
is mhom_test.py::test_mhom_solves_adaptive_precision: on Windows (clang-cl) AMP + the blend-block
homotopy + the Cauchy endgame do not keep precision in lockstep, so a path grinds toward
MaxPrecisionAllowed for hours instead of converging.  Nothing bounded it, and a 3-attempt
try-until-success loop only made it worse.

Tests should pass or fail, fast.  This makes them do that:

Safety nets so no test can ever hang a job again:
- pytest-timeout: per-test cap (180s, method=thread so it also bounds a grind stuck inside the C++
  extension, which a signal cannot interrupt).  Configured in pyproject.toml; added to the Linux
  (in-container), macOS, and Windows test dependency lists.
- ctest --timeout 600 on the C++ test runs.
- job-level timeout-minutes backstops on the four test jobs (25-40 min).

The actual hang:
- mhom_test.py and the C++ mhom test now pin a FIXED seed (RandomMp is reseedable now; the old
  "not reseedable" comments were stale) and drop the retry loops -- a single, reproducible solve.
- Both skip the blend-block AMP solve on Windows with a documented reason (tracked as the
  block-precision follow-up); the AMP MHom path is still covered on Windows by the eigenvalue test.

Verified: ctest 10/10 (11.9s), pytest 335 passed (6.2s); mhom is deterministic and fast.

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…p known platform grinds

Records the decision behind the CI hang fix (606cd94): three-level timeouts (pytest-timeout
thread method, ctest --timeout, job timeout-minutes), no retry-until-success in tests, fixed seeds
for reproducibility, and the documented Windows skip of the blend-block AMP grind.

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The classic Bertini input-file parser already read ImagThreshold,
EndpointFiniteThreshold, and EndpointSameThreshold into PostProcessingConfig,
but never read CondNumThreshold (Bertini 1's condition-number cutoff for the
singular classification). The config field condition_number_threshold existed
and was honored by the classifier and bound in Python, so a CondNumThreshold:
setting in a classic input file was silently ignored and the 1e8 default
always used.

Add the cond_num_ rule alongside its three siblings (same permutation/no_case
pattern) and a read_postprocessing test covering all four settings plus the
1e8 default surviving when CondNumThreshold is omitted.

ctest 10/10 green.

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The classic-input parser now reads all four PostProcessing settings; drop the
"parser does not yet read CondNumThreshold" follow-up and point at the new
read_postprocessing parser test.

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TEMPORARY per-cause instrumentation for the AMP precision over-escalation
investigation (detail/escalation_probe.hpp: atomic counters + env-gated
trace).  Counts, per solve: tracker precision increases, endgame
refine-escalations, corrector HigherPrecisionNecessary (tracking vs refine),
high-water working precision, and high-water DigitsB.  amp_escalation_probe
test sweeps gammas (BERTINI_PROBE_SEED single-seed, BERTINI_TRACE_PREC trace,
BERTINI_PROBE_DOUBLE fixed-double).

To be removed/gated before any fold-in.  Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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Build the pure-function-tree twin of a block-composed System: every block's
functions expressed as function-tree nodes, gathered into a single
PolynomialBlock, reusing the same variables/path-variable/patch.  A
verification/interop oracle (NOT a production eval path) so the block-composed
evaluation can be cross-checked against the function-tree path.

Scoped to today's blocks: PolynomialBlock (its Functions' entry nodes),
ProductsOfLinearsBlock (rebuilt factored, prod of linear-form sums from the
coefficient matrices), BlendBlock (sum_i c_i(t)*operand_i, recursing into
operands).  LinearFormsBlock + future blocks throw "not yet supported".
Coefficients become multiprecision node::Float constants (no float poison).

Adds minimal numeric-data accessors: ProductsOfLinearsBlock::Factors(),
BlendBlock::Coefficients()/Operands()/PathVariable().

Tests (expand_to_function_tree_test.cpp): for each block type, the expanded
system's eval + Jacobian match the block system's at random points, in both
double and mpfr (50 digits).  Foundation for the AMP base-numerics comparison.

Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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…tree

Adjudicates whether the DigitsB precision spike is a representation/estimate
bug or genuine conditioning.

amp_jacobian_estimate_test: the corrector's ||J^{-1}|| estimate (||J^{-1} r||,
random unit r) faithfully tracks the true spectral ||J^{-1}|| = 1/sigma_min(J)
-- a lower bound up to the ||r||=sqrt(n) factor for well-conditioned J, and the
right order of magnitude (within ~2 decades) for deliberately near-singular J
up to 1e140 (done in mpfr, since representing that conditioning needs >k digits
-- the very reason AMP escalates).  So a huge reported ||J^{-1}|| is genuine.

mhom_homotopy_block_matches_function_tree (the decisive one): the actual seed-6
MHom blend homotopy and its ExpandToFunctionTree twin evaluate and DIFFERENTIATE
identically -- to 1e-70 in mpfr, incl. near t->0 -- and share DegreeBound.

Conclusion: block Jacobian correct, bounds not inflated (DegreeBound=2 => Phi
tiny), estimate faithful => the DigitsB->147 spike is a GENUINE near-singular
pass for that gamma, not a numerics bug.  Next step targets the AMP cost
model's escalation/recovery, not the Jacobian.

Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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…oint check

Two diagnostics (information-gathering; branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation).

(1) CondNumTrajectory observer + mhom_condition_number_trajectory: along the
actual seed-6 MHom path, logs |t|, precision, and condition number per step, and
recovers gamma.  Findings: gamma is genuinely complex (e.g. (-0.07, 0.29i)); in
this RNG context the path is well-conditioned (cond ~10-500, prec <=30, no spike)
-- "seed 6" differs from the probe's seed 6 because SetGlobalSeed does not fully
reset RNG (reproducibility gap).

(2) projective_start_points_diagnostic + escalation_probe/mhom instrumentation
(||affine_solution||, cond(A) of the pin-last-coordinate normalization): exercises
the projective-group start-point workaround across small (2xP^1), wider (2xP^3),
deep (3xP^2) systems x 12 seeds.  Findings: every start point is an accurate root
(residual ~1e-11..1e-16 dbl, ~1e-76..1e-80 mpfr80), well-scaled (|sp|<=~40), and
cond(A) is bounded (<=~1e5, growing mildly with group size).  So the workaround
FUNCTIONS correctly -- mildly fragile (fixed chart; a random normalization chart
would be cleaner) but NOT the source of the 1e145 escalation.

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… on-path

Sweep seeds until a genuinely-escalating path is found, then dump its
condition-number/precision trajectory.  Result (seed 53, gamma=(0.35,-28.8i)):

  - precision JUMPS 16 (double) -> 290 in one step (step 338->339), driven by
    maxDigitsB=295, via the corrector's HigherPrecisionNecessary / AMPCriterionError.
  - it then GRINDS 242 endgame loop-steps at 290 digits while the on-path
    condition number is ~10 (log10 ~1), stuck at |t|~1.6e-3, before RECOVERING
    to 30 by path end.  per-cause: endgameRefineEscalations=0, corrRefineHPN=4.

So the 290-digit escalation is NOT justified by on-path conditioning (~10) --
it is a transient near-singular corrector ITERATE (off the converged path)
spiking DigitsB to 295, which AMP answers by leaping straight to the precision
cap and then over-staying through the endgame loops.  This corrects the earlier
"genuine on-path near-singularity" reading: DigitsB is computed at corrector
iterates, which can be transiently near-singular even when the path is benign.

Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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…se) + decision tracing

config: consecutive_successful_steps_before_precision_decrease 10 -> 5.  Bertini 1
uses a single StepsForIncrease=5 for the success-counting; B2 had split it and set
the precision-decrease threshold to 10 (a deviation).  (The stepsize-increase
threshold, the literal StepsForIncrease, was already 5.)

probe: predictor_hpn counter + gated [amp] traces at the two precision-decision
points -- AMPCriterionError (the one-shot jump) and AdjustAMPStepSuccess (the
de-escalation gate, logging successesSinceDecrease / numDecreases /
decreaseDisallowed) -- to confirm the precise chain empirically.

Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation (investigation; not folding in yet).

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…irmed

- trace budget (escalation_probe trace_ok) caps [amp] trace lines per seed so a
  grind can't emit a 10M-line file.
- the trajectory test pins consecutive_successful_steps_before_precision_decrease=10
  to recover the spike scenario for testing (default is now 5).

Empirical chain (trace) confirms BOTH structural defects:
- THE JUMP: predictor returns HigherPrecisionNecessary (norm_J_inverse huge),
  AMPCriterionError sets min_precision=digits_B (~134) -> one-shot jump 16->130,
  even at |t|=1.0.  SetNormsCond estimates ||J^-1|| at dh_dx_0_ (the Jacobian at
  the CURRENT path point); at t=1 that is the START POINT -> the homotopy Jacobian
  at the start point is near-singular (~1e134) for some gammas.
- NO RECOVERY: StepSuccess shows on-path digitsB=5 (5 digits suffice) yet precision
  stays 130 because decreaseDisallowed=1 (the StepsForIncrease de-escalation gate,
  reset every endgame arc by TrackPath::ResetCounters).

Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation (investigation).

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seed_determinism_probe solves the 2x2 MHom at a fixed seed repeatedly in one
process and prints gamma, start points, maxPrec.  Findings:
- gamma and start points are BIT-IDENTICAL across repeats, across history, and
  run-to-run -> the RNG is deterministic and SetGlobalSeed fully resets it.
- BUT maxPrec for seed 53 is history-dependent: 30 alone / after a non-spiking
  seed, 40 after a SPIKING seed (21) -- deterministic run-to-run, so a spiking
  solve leaks NON-RNG global state that perturbs the next solve.
- confirmed seeding collision: SetGlobalSeed(N) seeds splitmix64(N); the per-path
  ReseedThisThread(0) seeds splitmix64(N^0)=splitmix64(N) -- path index 0's stream
  is IDENTICAL to the setup (gamma/start-coeff) stream.  Reseeding mid-process can
  reproduce earlier random values (the user's concern, confirmed).

So "the seeding problem" is really two things: (1) a non-RNG global-state leak
from high-precision solves, and (2) a per-path reseed design that collides with
the setup stream.  Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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Toward "one user seed -> full reproducibility, no random number ever generated
twice" (steps A+B of the RNG architecture).

A. random.cpp/.hpp: seed mt19937 from a std::seed_seq built on the FULL 64-bit
   (master, domain, index) tuple instead of a uint32_t-truncated splitmix64 ->
   no mod-2^32 collisions, and domain separation so the setup stream, each path
   stream, and each worker stream are mutually distinct.  Fixes the bug where
   ReseedThisThread(0) reproduced the SetGlobalSeed setup stream (a value
   generated twice).  Adds DerivedWorkerSeed(rank) for hierarchical MPI seeding
   (manager hands each worker a distinct deterministic child seed).

B. newton_corrector.hpp: the refine corrector no longer regenerates the
   ||J^-1|| probe vector every call -- it reuses the FIXED vector drawn once at
   setup (the predictor already did).  Tracking now draws no randomness:
   cheaper, deterministic, parallel-safe, and condition numbers are comparable
   across steps.

Also gate the diagnostic probe tests behind BERTINI_RUN_PROBES (they sweep many
seeds, are slow, and can hit grinding seeds) so the default ctest is fast/clean.

ctest 10/10 (10.7s); all real nag tests pass -- the seeding change preserves
correctness (solution counts are seed-independent).  Branch
perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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The in-process non-reproducibility (a high-precision solve perturbing the next,
deterministically, with bit-identical gamma/start-points and identical
DefaultPrecision/ThreadPrecision/mpfr-emin-emax) was mpfr's thread-local
CONSTANT CACHE.  The Cauchy endgame needs pi (roots of unity); mpfr caches
constants at the precision last requested, so a high-precision solve leaves pi
cached at high precision and a later lower-precision solve reuses it ROUNDED
DOWN -- differing by ~1 ULP from a freshly computed low-precision pi -- which
shifts the AMP trajectory (e.g. seed 53 maxPrec 30 alone vs 40 after a spiking
seed).  Answer stays correct; it's a reproducibility/perf wobble.

Fix: mpfr_free_cache() at the start of ZeroDim::Solve() and RunParallel() so each
solve starts from a clean cache and is independent of process history.  Cheap
(one constant recompute per solve); thread-local.

Confirmed: with this, seed 53's result is identical whether run first or after a
spiking seed.  (valgrind would NOT have found this -- it's initialized memory.)
ctest 10/10.  Branch perf/amp-block-precision-escalation.

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…g); add system column

Two things, both surfaced while building the solution_database tutorial.

BUG (silent data corruption): to_dataframe stored the value returned by indexing the eigenpy
solution vector (`pt[k]`).  That scalar is a *view* aliasing a reused internal buffer, so the
stored references all collapsed once pandas read them later -- the DataFrame showed one
coordinate repeated across rows.  Two solutions never tripped it; three or more did.  This was
also the most likely cause of the rare GMP "Cannot allocate memory" SIGABRT (issue bertiniteam#259): the
same aliased read, occasionally landing on freed/garbage memory instead of merely stale memory.

Fix: copy each coordinate as it is read, `type(c)(c)`, before the next index -- a Python complex
for a double solve, a bertini.multiprec.Complex for a multiprecision one (no precision lost).
Verified: pre-fix 15/15 corrupt, post-fix 60/60 clean in the worst import order
(numpy/pandas/matplotlib before bertini), so import order no longer matters and bertiniteam#259 is resolved.

FEATURE: to_dataframe now appends a `system` column -- a single shared reference to the (target)
system the solutions satisfy, so rows accumulated from several solves stay identifiable in the
"database of solutions".

Tests: a regression test using four distinct roots (+/-1, +/-1) asserts the coordinate columns
reproduce all_solutions exactly (the two-solution test could not catch the aliasing); a test that
the system column is one shared System reference.  Tutorial: documents the system column;
regenerated both figures (now correct) as SVG + PNG with a shared, non-occluding legend.

Closes bertiniteam#259.

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…to_dataframe merges by default

A multiplicity-m solution is returned by the solver as m coincident endpoints; carrying m
identical rows is a nuisance.  The CLUSTERING is the solver's job (C++): ComputeMultiplicities,
which already groups the coincident endpoints to count multiplicity, now also marks exactly one
member of each cluster as the representative -- a new SolutionMetaData field
`multiplicity_representative` (the lowest-index member; the other m-1 are false).  Simple roots and
at-infinity/failed endpoints are each their own representative.

to_dataframe() gains `merge_multiplicities=True` (default): it collapses each cluster to its single
representative row by reading `multiplicity_representative` -- it does NOT re-cluster in Python.  The
`multiplicity` column still records m.  Pass merge_multiplicities=False to keep every endpoint.

- C++: SolutionMetaData.multiplicity_representative (+ operator==/<<); ComputeMultiplicities marks
  duplicates; test multiplicity_representative_marks_one_per_cluster ({x^2,y^2} -> one rep, mult 4;
  x^2-1,y^2-1 -> four reps).  The field round-trips through the metadata pickle automatically.
- Python: merge_multiplicities param + the new metadata column; tests for merge on/off and the
  no-op-on-simple-roots case.
- Tutorial: documents the default merge (the nodal node is now one row, multiplicity 2).

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… solutions()->all_solutions() rename

Merging develop brought in the bertiniteam#258 fix (friendly error when a ZeroDim solver is passed to
user_homotopy instead of its solutions).  Its detection used the solver's `.solutions`
attribute as the fingerprint -- which this branch renamed to `.all_solutions` -- so after the
merge the check silently failed and the cryptic "object is not iterable" returned (the merged
regression test caught it on CI).  Point the fingerprint and the error message at
`.all_solutions()`.
feat(python): ZeroDim solution access — all_solutions, infinite_solutions, to_dataframe
… (no x0,x1 explosion)

to_dataframe was exploding each solution into per-coordinate columns x0, x1, ....  Put the whole
point in a single `solution` column instead; if a user wants a column per coordinate, they split
it themselves (e.g. df['x'] = [p[0] for p in df.solution]).

The cell is points[i].copy() -- an independent snapshot of the eigenpy solution vector that keeps
its native element type (Python complex for double, bertini.multiprec.Complex for multiprecision,
so no precision is lost).  The .copy() is essential: indexing the vector lazily aliases a reused
internal buffer, so storing the live vector and letting pandas read it later would collapse every
cell (the same aliasing fixed earlier for the per-coordinate path).

- Tests updated for the single column; the aliasing regression now reads df.solution.
- Tutorial revised: the solution is one column, and the plotting step pulls coordinates out of it
  on demand -- demonstrating the "split it yourself" workflow.

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…bertiniteam#258)

MakeMovingHomotopy previously only checked that start/end moving agree in
function count and variable structure. The common mistake of concatenating
the fixed system into the moving rows (duplicating the fixed equations) sailed
through and built a silently-wrong homotopy.

Add a structural top-level-function comparison (serialized form, expanding
structured blocks via NaturalFunctionsAsNodes):
  * a fixed equation also present in the moving rows -> nice error (the bertiniteam#258
    concatenate-the-fixed-system mistake);
  * a moving row identical at both endpoints (positionally) -> nice error, since
    it does not move and belongs in `fixed`.

Overdetermined-but-distinct moving homotopies remain valid (squareness is NOT
required here; Randomize() squares them later).

Adds C++ regression tests for both failure modes.

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refactor(python): to_dataframe keeps the whole solution in one column
…copy before storing

Records the load-bearing pitfall behind the to_dataframe corruption and bertiniteam bertiniteam#259:
indexing an eigenpy Vec<mpc> returns a view aliasing a reused buffer, so storing it and
reading later collapses every value (and on freed memory, GMP SIGABRTs).  Rule: copy at
extraction (type(c)(c) per element, or Vec.copy() per vector).  Sibling to ADR-0001/0006/0008
(the binding-side eigenpy mpc hazards); this is the Python-consumer counterpart.

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…ck-guard

fix: reject equations in the wrong block of a moving homotopy (bertiniteam#258)
…arFormsBlock

A witness set's slice was the orphaned bertini::LinearSlice -- not a System
block, not used by any algorithm, not exposed, a duplicate of the integrated
LinearFormsBlock. Replace it with a concrete bertini::Slice backed by a
LinearFormsBlock (augmented coefficient matrix) plus the sliced VariableGroup.

Slice delegates eval/Jacobian/precision/coefficients to the block, salvages the
old QR-orthogonal random factories (RandomReal/RandomComplex/Make), and adds the
composition surface witness sets and regeneration need: Coefficients(),
Head/Tail/Rows -> sub-Slice, AsLinearFormsBlock(), AddTo(System&), FromCoefficients.
Slice rows share the augmented (num_vars+1)-column layout with
ProductsOfLinearsBlock, so a slice drops straight into a product-of-linears.

WitnessSet's slice member now holds a Slice. Tests rewritten; added coverage for
coefficients/eval/row-subsetting/precision/AddTo-System agreement.

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Bind the new bertini::Slice as a single Python class (from_coefficients /
random_complex / random_real factories, coefficients, dimension, num_variables,
is_homogeneous, eval, head/tail/rows, add_to, precision). Extend the WitnessSet
bindings with get_slice / get_points, building mutators (add_point / set_points /
set_slice / set_system), and a from-parts constructor -- so a witness set can be
built incrementally or all at once, from Python or C++.

Add linalg ergonomics: slice_from_coefficients, add_slices_as_products (the regen
bridge: slice rows become products-of-linears factors), and Slice.__getitem__ /
__len__ for numpy-style row subsetting (s[:k], s[-k:], s[[0,2]], s[1]).

New python/test/nid/slice_witness_test.py covers building, evaluating, row
subsetting, adding a slice to a System, the regen bridge, and both WitnessSet
construction paths.

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…ble + picklable

Slice already serialized (via its LinearFormsBlock); add serialize to WitnessSet
and NumericalIrreducibleDecomposition, and a boost-archive pickle suite to all
three Python classes (pickle / copy / deepcopy round-trip) -- the substrate MPI
and threading need to ship a witness set between ranks/threads.

WitnessSet uses a split save/load: load() re-differentiates the system and
re-syncs its working precision (System::serialize persists neither), so a
deserialized witness set's system is immediately usable. Doing this in load()
(not just the Python pickle suite) keeps the C++ deserialize path -- the one MPI
and threading use -- correct too. The NID result defers to each witness set's
own load() fixup.

C++ round-trip tests (slice eval after load; witness-set degree/dimension/
consistency plus the system evaluating and differentiating post-load) and Python
pickle/deepcopy tests.

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… readable repr

Slice.Concatenate (Python `+`) stacks two slices' linear forms into one
higher-codimension slice (same variables; homogeneous only if both are).
Slice.AsSystem returns a standalone System of just the slice's forms, so a slice
can be carried around and evaluated/tracked on its own.  Bind operator<< as
__str__/__repr__ so a slice prints its variables and augmented coefficient matrix.

C++ tests (concatenate eval + variable-count guard; as_system eval agreement) and
Python tests (concatenate/+, as_system, repr).

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…LinearSlice retired

Records why a witness set's slice became bertini::Slice (holding a LinearFormsBlock
plus the sliced VariableGroup and homogeneous-intent) instead of keeping the
orphaned LinearSlice or adding yet another parallel linear-forms type: unify on
the integrated, numpy-native, regen-composable block layer.

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Slice::AddTo now throws a clear error when the slice's variable count does not
match the system's (the block's columns are indexed by the system's variable
ordering, so a mismatch is a silently-wrong or out-of-bounds evaluation
downstream). C++ and Python tests for the guard.

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Slice.to_classic_input() emits a slice's linear forms as a B1 input file (via its
standalone system; the classic writer expands the LinearFormsBlock). WitnessSet
gains witness_system() -- the square system (its system + the slice's forms) whose
isolated solutions are the witness points -- and to_classic_input() to emit it for
cross-validation in Bertini 1.

witness_system clones the system and slice.add_to()s the clone (not concatenate,
which currently can't append a structured block). Tests for both.

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…al rows

Concatenate appended sys2's functions via sys2.Function(ii), which reads only the
PolynomialBlock (PolyBlockPtr()->Functions()).  A system whose rows live in a
structured block -- a linear-forms slice, a products-of-linears block -- was
therefore skipped, and null-deref'd (segfault) when it had no polynomial block at
all.  Now Concatenate visits sys2.Blocks(): it merges the PolynomialBlock's
functions into sys1 and copies each structured block verbatim (value-in, indexed
by the already-checked shared variable ordering).

This makes WitnessSet.witness_system() the natural concatenate(system,
slice.as_system()) again (was a clone + add_to workaround).  C++ test (concatenate
a polynomial system with a slice system, eval the 3 rows) and Python test.

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A slice is unaware of homogenization -- the system owns it.  But a block added to an
ALREADY-homogenized system is not homogenized by the system, so Slice.add_to now
detects this (the system has minted homogenizing variables) and folds the slice's
constant onto the homogenizing variable itself -- exactly as System::Homogenize did
to the other blocks -- so the appended forms are homogeneous and consistent.  Affine
and born-projective systems (no minted hom var) add the slice as authored.  Single
affine variable group only (LinearFormsBlock::Homogenize's own limit); multi-group
throws clearly.

witness_system() now clones + slice.add_to() (homogenization-aware) rather than
concatenate (a generic same-structure append that cannot fold a constant), so a
witness set whose system was homogenized + patched composes correctly.

Tests: C++ (add an affine slice to a homogenized system -> whole system homogeneous,
slice form vanishes at the origin) and Python (witness_system on a homogenized +
patched system; affine-slice constant rides onto the hom var; projective patch
preservation).

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…o awareness

Update the consequences: a slice doesn't own homogenization (the system does); an
affine slice's constant becomes the hom-var coefficient on homogenization; add_to is
homogenization-aware; partial-variable slices use zero columns (no sparse path yet).

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A witness set now prints a concise summary -- the component's dimension and degree,
whether it is consistent, and a one-line description of the slice and system it
carries (each of which has its own detailed repr).  Robust to partially-built /
empty witness sets.  Tests for a built and an empty witness set.

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…form vector

eigenpy collapses a one-row Eigen matrix to a 1-D numpy array (XOR(rows==1,
cols==1)), so a single-form slice's coefficients would come back 1-D -- a silent,
data-dependent shape (and the d=1 curve is the COMMON witness-set case).  There is
no eigenpy knob for this (investigated: hardcoded in eigen-to-python.hpp; only
global state is sharedMemory; np.matrix mode removed).

So we own the shape in OUR accessors, with Python sequence semantics:
  * coefficients() -> ALWAYS 2-D (num_forms, num_variables+1), reshaped by the
    dimensions known in C++ (orientation-correct);
  * slice[i] (int) -> the i-th form's coefficient VECTOR (1-D); iterating yields
    these vectors -- "a line is a vector";
  * slice[i:j] / slice[[...]] -> a sub-Slice.
The vector-vs-matrix choice is named, never inferred from the form count -- so it
is stable across binding libraries (eigenpy now, nanoeigenpy later).

ADR-0033 records the eigenpy rule, the no-knob finding, the orientation-specific
atleast_2d trap, and the at-risk un-wrapped accessors (eval_jacobian, randomization,
patch) as deliberate future retrofits.  Rich docstrings + class doc on Slice.  Tests
for element/sub-collection/iteration and the always-2-D coefficients.

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…antics, B1 emission

A runnable (sphinx doctest) tutorial covering: what a witness set is (system, slice,
points; dimension/degree); building slices; the sequence shape semantics (coefficients()
always 2-D, slice[i] a form vector, slice[i:j] a sub-Slice) and WHY they are stable;
add_to / as_system (homogenization-aware); building a witness set incrementally and from
parts; pickle; witness_system / to_classic_input for Bertini 1; and the products-of-linears
regen bridge.  10 doctests, all passing.

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- function_tree: nodes no longer evaluate -- the SLP is the sole evaluator
  (node-level recursive eval removed; Function/Handle gone, NamedExpression the
  sole root). Reference ADR-0027/0028. (Stops the recurring "recursive virtual
  node eval" misconception.)
- NID is framework scaffolding, not implemented (Solve() throws).
- Eigen: NOT pinned to 3.3 -- find_package(Eigen3) has no floor; the version is
  coupled to the eigenpy build (CI builds eigen 3.4.0, a dev env uses 5.0.1). New
  Eigen is welcome but must be matched by an eigenpy built against the same Eigen.
- eigenpy: built from source at EIGENPY_VERSION (3.13.0); shares Eigen with
  bertini; sets the Python floor (>=3.10).
- Boost: no minimum pinned in cmake (only the 1.89 boost_system split); Boost.Python
  rebuilt per CPython.
- blackbox: target bertini2_exe, binary bertini2.
- add the missing test_pool executable; note building core (bertini2) first for
  iterative work.

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…xposure

Expose WitnessSet + a block-backed Slice (enable NID)
Following the merge of the WitnessSet + Slice exposure work (PR #34).

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macOS Apple clang surfaces a different warning set than the prior
Ubuntu/GCC pass. Fix the first-party core-library warnings at the root
cause (no pragmas, no -Wno):

- -Wpessimizing-move: drop redundant std::move on prvalue RandomMp<N>()
  returns (random.cpp)
- -Wunused-lambda-capture: drop unused [this] from Boost.Spirit parser
  semantic-action lambdas (settings_parsers/{algorithm,endgames,tracking})
- -Wsign-conversion: explicit static_cast at signed/unsigned boundaries
  (Eigen::Index for Eigen indexing, size_t for std container indexing)
- -Wunused-parameter / -Wunused-variable / -Wunused-but-set-variable:
  comment out or remove dead names/locals
- -Wreorder-adjacent / -Wmisleading-indentation: brace the brace-less if
  in SetVariables so the following statement is unambiguous
- -Wdeprecated-copy: declare EGBoundaryMetaData copy-assign = default

Core library now compiles warning-free; all 10 C++ test suites pass.

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…) and mark Boost/Eigen SYSTEM

The library-only build missed warnings in templates that are only
instantiated by the test/binding TUs. Building the full tree surfaces them;
fix the rest of the first-party core warnings at the root cause:

- -Wunused-lambda-capture: drop unused [this] from the remaining Boost.Spirit
  parser semantic-action lambdas (settings_parsers/{algorithm,endgames,
  tracking,random}) that only the test build instantiates
- -Wsign-conversion: explicit static_cast at boundaries in observers.hpp
  (std::setprecision takes int) and across the affected test files
- -Wsign-compare / -Wimplicit-int-float-conversion / -Wfloat-conversion:
  explicit casts in the test files
- -Wunused-parameter / -Wunused-variable / -Wunused-but-set-variable: drop
  unused names/locals (trace.hpp, several tests)

Also mark Boost and Eigen include directories as SYSTEM so any warning that
originates inside those third-party headers stays out of our build output
(GMP/MPFR/MPC were already SYSTEM). Fixes a keyword-order bug in the bindings
CMake ("PUBLIC SYSTEM" -> "SYSTEM PUBLIC") that left Boost/Python/NumPy not
actually treated as system.

Core (library + tests) now compiles warning-free; all 10 C++ suites pass.
Only the python bindings still emit warnings (handled next, with -Wno-conversion
removed).

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… eigenpy SYSTEM

Drop the blanket -Wno-conversion that hid genuine conversion bugs in our
binding code, then resolve what it exposed at the root cause:

- -Wsign-compare / -Wsign-conversion: use size_t loop counters in the
  container repr/str helpers (containers_export.hpp); explicit static_cast at
  boundaries (numerical_irreducible_decomposition.hpp)
- -Wunused-parameter: comment out unused PyClass&/object& params in visitors
  (configured_visitor, endgame_observers, tracker_observers, mpfr_export.cpp)
- -Wunused-local-typedef: drop the unused BRT alias (endgame_export.hpp)

eigenpy's own templates (numpy-allocator.hpp etc.) emit conversion/shorten
warnings when instantiated from our code, which marking the include dir SYSTEM
does not suppress (clang still reports warnings raised during template
instantiation requested from non-system code). Add
--system-header-prefix=eigenpy/ (clang-only) to treat eigenpy as a system
header, plus mark its include dirs SYSTEM. This silences ~120 third-party
eigenpy warnings without a blanket -Wno that would mask our own bugs.

One intentional -Wsign-conversion remains in PowVisitor<T,int>::__pow__: the
natural pow(a,b) is correct for every (T,S) here including negative integer
exponents (a**-2); forcing the exponent unsigned breaks that (caught by
mpfr_test::test_change_prec), and promoting to T fails to compile for complex T.

Full tree now builds with a single intentional warning. C++ suites pass;
pytest: 504 passed, 12 skipped, 1 pre-existing failure (a numpy 2.4 / Python
3.14 custom-dtype reduction SystemError, reproducible on a bare 2-element
array, unrelated to this change).

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